The Defence Minister of Serbia, Dragan Šutanovac, stated in a 2011 meeting in Luanda that Serbia would negotiate with the Angolan military authorities for the construction of a new military hospital in Angola.

* Peter MacKay, lawyer, Canadian Minister of National Defence

Chiang appointed a Muslim General, Bai Chongxi, as the Minister of National Defence of the Republic of China, which controlled the ROC military.

On 15 February 2008 Serbian Minister of Defence Dragan Sutanovac was pictured testing a Barnett crossbow during a public exercise of the Serbian army's Special Forces in Nis, 200 km south of capital Belgrade.

* that the Defence portfolio not be given to the Prime Minister

Queen Margrethe II is the de jure Commander-in-Chief per the Danish constitution, however according to the Danish Defense Law the Minister of Defence serves as the commander of the Danish Defence ( through the Chief of Defence and the Defence Command ) and the Danish Home Guard ( through the Home Guard Command ).

The Coordinating Minister of Internal and External Security accords the policies and actions that will be adopted by the following institutions as regards internal and external security: the Ministry of Government and Police, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, and the Secretariat General for the Public administration.

Thirdly, the president appointed the head of the military intelligence, Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, as Minister of Defence to replace Tantawi.

This is similar to the system in Germany, where article 65a of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany vests it with the Federal Minister of Defence.

On October 27, President Mirza swore in a twelve-member cabinet that included Army Commander General Ayub Khan as Defence Minister as well as chief martial law administrator of the country, along with three other senior military officers in ministerial positions.

Within the government, preparative discussions are conducted in the government committee of foreign and security policy ( ulko-ja turvallisuuspoliittinen ministerivaliokunta ), which includes the Prime Minister and at least the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Defence, and at most four other ministers as necessary.

The Minister of National Defence Art Eggleton advised Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to authorize more than 100 Canadian Forces members serving on military exchange programs in the United States and other countries to participate in U. S. operations in Afghanistan.

In practice, that role is ceremonial, with actual authority in the hands of the Defence Minister and the Chief of the Defence Force ( CDF ).

The then Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, and the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, were also in attendance, and Clark was accompanied by the official NZ Defence Force party, veterans of several past wars, and 10 New Zealand college students who won the New Zealand ' Prime Minister's Essay Competition ' with their work on Gallipoli.

Röhm lobbied Hitler to appoint him Minister of Defence, a position held by conservative General Werner von Blomberg.

In Germany, the Basic Law of the Federal Republic vests this authority in the Minister of Defence in normal peace-time ( article 65a ), and that command authority is transferred to the Federal Chancellor when a state of defence is invoked ( article 115b ): something which has never happened so far.

* Allen Fairhall ( LP ), Minister for Defence

After the end of his viceregal tenure, Alexander was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and thereafter, in order to serve as the British Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Winston Churchill, into the Imperial Privy Council.

The Commander-in-Chief of the NZDF is Sir Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General of New Zealand who exercises his power on the advice of the Minister of Defence, Jonathan Coleman, under the Defence Act 1990.

In January 1994, British Minister of State for Defence Procurement Jonathan Aitken ( answering a Question to the Secretary of State for Defence ) confirmed in parliamentary debates that a Russian T-80U tank was imported for " defence research and development purposes ".

* David Owen, The Politics of Defence ( Jonathan Cape and Taplinger Pub.

Seen as a ' rising star ' in the party and noted for his Commons interventions on foreign affairs, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jonathan Aitken, Minister of State for Defence.

The chain of command runs from Defence Force headquarters at Aitken Street in central Wellington to Headquarters Joint Forces New Zealand ( HQ JFNZ ) at Trentham in Upper Hutt.

Aitken became Minister of State for Defence Procurement under PM John Major in 1992.

He was also vital in the development of two important systems in the French Defence, the Winawer Variation ( in some places called the Nimzowitsch Variation ; its moves are 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 ) and the Advance Variation ( 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 ).

In 1964, the Admiralty was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence along with the War Office and the Air Ministry.

In addition to these troops Belarus was the area of deployment for units subordinated directly to the USSR Defence Ministry and chiefs of different Soviet Armed Forces services, namely the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, the 38th Guards Airborne Brigade, the 11th corps of the 2nd Separate Air Defence Army, the 26th Air Army and also units and formations of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long Range Aviation, the Navy and special forces.

In 1995 the Military Academy of Belarus was set up on the basis of two military educational institutions-the Minsk Air Defense and Rocket School of the Air Defence Forces and the Minsk Higher Military Command School.

One notable Manifesto Group exception was its secretary, future Defence Secretary George Robertson, who was the only officer to remain.

The fifth French ship, Peuple Souverain, was attacked from either side by Defence and Orion and rapidly lost the fore and main masts.

Orion and Defence were unable to immediately pursue, as Defence had lost its fore topmast and Orion was narrowly missed by an improvised fireship that drifted through the battle.

Isolated and battered, Blanquet's ship was soon dismasted and the admiral, suffering a severe head wound, was forced to surrender by the combined firepower of Swiftsure and Defence.

Accordingly the army's strength was further reduced, in recognition of Britain's reduced role in world affairs, outlined in the 1957 Defence White Paper.

The locally recruited Ulster Defence Regiment was formed, later becoming home service battalions in the Royal Irish Regiment in 1992, before being disbanded in 2006.

He was convicted as a rebel when, as an officer in the Union Defence Force, he refused to take up arms with the British.

The French Ministry of Defence considered Clipperton as a possible replacement location ; however, due to the island's hostile climate and remote location, this was eventually ruled out.

The Secretary General of the Council is head of the General Secretariat, Uwe Corsepius since June 2011 ; previously the post holder was also the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, President of the European Defence Agency and the Western European Union.

She was asked to provide information for Defence Secretariat 19 about leading CND personnel but was instructed to include only information from published sources.

The latest Defence agreement (" Defence agreement 2005-2009 ") was signed June 10, 2004, and calls for a significant re-construction of the entire military.

He served in this post for six years during which he was able to consolidate the three service departments of the military branch into a single Ministry of Defence.

The first official history of MI5, The Defence of the Realm published in 2009, tacitly confirmed that there was a plot against Wilson and that MI5 did have a file on him.

Following the promulgation of 1956 Constitution, Prime minister Bogra appointed Bengali bureaucrat and retired Major-General Iskander Mirza was as Interior minister and the Army Commander of army General Ayub Khan as the Defence minister whilst Muhammad Ali remained Economic minister.